. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . IDEAL LIGHT BRAHMA TRIO. This illustration shows the Light Brahma true to life. Where this mag-nificent bird is known we need say but little in its behalf. They are thelargest breed of fowls. Hardy, gentle and handsome, good winter layers,content in small yards and rarely attempt to fly. Standard weights are:cock 12 pounds, cockerel 10 pounds, hen Qi/o pounds and pullet 8 pounds. CHICKEN EXPEEIENCES. All summer and spring my chicken house has been filled with mitesThey became so bad that the sitting h
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . IDEAL LIGHT BRAHMA TRIO. This illustration shows the Light Brahma true to life. Where this mag-nificent bird is known we need say but little in its behalf. They are thelargest breed of fowls. Hardy, gentle and handsome, good winter layers,content in small yards and rarely attempt to fly. Standard weights are:cock 12 pounds, cockerel 10 pounds, hen Qi/o pounds and pullet 8 pounds. CHICKEN EXPEEIENCES. All summer and spring my chicken house has been filled with mitesThey became so bad that the sitting hens left the nests, and many ofthe fowls refused to roost in the hen house. I tried nearly everythinguntil I heard of the following very simple remedy. You know that mitesspend the day in cracks, holes and slivers in the roost. One morning ineach week I went over the hen house with a common machine oil can filledwith kerosene and squirted the cracks and holes full of oil. The result 310 Bujf IDEAL BUFF COCHIN TRIO. No lover of large fowls ever saw a flock of well-bred BuflE Cochins with-out admiring them. Their massive bodies, heavily coated with feathersof a rich buff or golden color, make them very attractive. They are oneof our oldest Asiatic varieties, breed wonderfully true to color, and areconsidered the most hardy and prolific fowl of their class. Good winterlayers, well fitted for cold climates. A three-foot fence will keep , owing to their immense size they do not, as a rule, make good sittersand mothers. Their standard weights are: cocks 11 pounds, hens Si^)pounds. was that in three weeks there was uot a mite to be seen, and the fowls aredoing better now than they ever did before. I should have said that beforeI applied the oil the first time I went all over the interior of the houseand washed the walls and roosts with boiling soap suds and then gavethem a coat of whitewash. This destroyed a great many of the insects,but those I missed and those hatc
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